Bedstead part
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood and metal
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937965
Summary
Head end of a bedstead, consisting of : (a) two red-stained, square, tapering head posts with fillets for retaining the headboard and screw holes in the bases in which castors would have been screwed; (.i) incised VIII; (.ii) incised 'V'; (b) plain, red-stained end rail, incised 'III' and with 'No. 12' handwritten in blue crayon.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).